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Some Aspects of Indian Culture
fasa (Detay) ९७ ज कल्ले कायवं अज्ज चिय त करेह तुरमाणा ।
बहुविधो च मुहतो. मा अवरह पडिक्खेह ।। (६.२०४) 97. Quickly. do today what is to be done tomorrow. A good occasion is beset with many obstacles. Do not wait for the latter half of the day. (6. 204).
वेसा (Prostitute) ९८ चोप्पड्य (?) भसिमडिय' पि रामति अत्थलुद्धाओ।
सिरिवच्छ कियवच्छ मुहाए विण्डु पि नेजति ।। ९९ अत्थस्स कारणवा मुहाइचुंब ति वंकविरसाई। .
अप्पा पो च्चिय वेसो कह ताण पिओ परो होउ ।। १०. अन्नेण गहियमुक्का वज्जियनेहा पण?सब्भावा ।
उच्चिट्टपुत्तलिं शिव भण को वेस समल्लियइ ? ।। १.१ को नाम नरा चुंबे वेसामुखप कय मणि(ण)भिराम ।
जुयकरचेउतकरनरभडनिद्दहण (निट्ठवण) मल्ल व ॥ (१४.२५-२८) 98. (The Prostitutes) who are greedy of money, play or dally with a man whose face is besmeared with grease and tarnished with jet. But they do not, even in mistake, desire Vişņu who has a bosom adorned with Sirivatsa.
99. For the sake of wealth, they kiss the faces which are crooked and unlikeable. How can others be the object of love, when they have got to love their own self only?
100. Tell, who would like to go near to a prostitute who is accepted and then abandoned, who is bereft of love and noble intentions as if she were a doll which is given up having been played with ?
101: What man would like to kiss the face of a prostitute, which, thongh lotus like and pleasing to the mind, is not fit for being spitted at by a gambler, servant, thief and sepoy even ? (14°25-28)
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